Cost Controller

The Cost Controller owns both sides of the contract's cost assurance: maintaining cost control records, escalation calculations and monthly cost/deviation reporting, and verifying quantities, hours and costs claimed by the Client's service providers against Job Cost Estimates (JCE), Job Cost Certificates (JCC) and Purchase Requisition s (PRs). The role ensures every Rand claimed is both correctly costed and independently verified before certification, within Client's Operational Delivery turnaround targets.

• Maintain cost control records and monthly cost reports across all active work assignments (clause 1.11).
• Confirm and calculate escalation amounts for Contract Price Adjustments in line with contract documents (clause 1.14).
• Prepare monthly final account reconciliation reports and deviation reports at the end of each calendar month (clause 1.37).
• Track and report on all evaluated contract variations, day works and scope changes (clause 1.13).
• Assist the QS team with cost implications of additional claims received from service providers (clause 1.15).
• Support pre-design feasibility studies with cost/economic appraisal input where required (clause 1.21).
• Maintain cost-planning, cost-analysis and cost-monitoring records where Client specifies special requirements (clause 1.22).
• Reconcile budget vs actual spend and highlight variances to the Principal QS and Contracts Administrator.
• Verify quantities and hours on JCCs and invoices for maintenance work via Job Cost Estimates (clause 1.46).
• Verify quantities and hours on invoices for maintenance projects via Purchase Requisition s (clause 1.47).
• Verify quantities and hours on JCCs and invoices for shutdown work and/or normal operations via JCEs and PRs (Invoice Verification scope, item
  1).
• Evaluate quantities and hours where a dispute arises between the Client and a service provider (Invoice Verification scope, item
  2).
• Complete maintenance-work verification within the 5-working-day turnaround target; shutdown/project verification within the 14-working-day target.
• Check rates used on invoices against contractually agreed rate cards, and verify employees/hours claimed against clocking-system records where applicable.
• Reconcile disbursements claimed against contract terms as part of both cost control and invoice verification checks.
• Escalate non-compliant or disputed invoices, with supporting evidence, to the Principal QS/Professional QS for resolution.
• Where turnaround times cannot be met, proactively notify the Client representative and agree a revised due date.
• Maintain accurate, auditable cost-control and invoice-verification records to support quarterly commercial audits and the Commercial Compliance and Quality & Accuracy performance pillars.

• National Diploma or Degree in Quantity Surveying, Cost/Financial Management, Commerce or a related field.

• Minimum 4–5 years' combined experience in cost control, cost analysis, commercial reporting and/or invoice verification, ideally within construction, engineering or industrial maintenance environments.
• Experience with escalation/CPA calculations and monthly cost-reporting cycles.
• Familiarity with JCE/JCC/PR invoice-verification processes advantageous (Client systems experience a strong advantage).

• Advanced Excel and cost-management/ERP system proficiency.
• Sound understanding of budgeting, variance analysis and cost-reporting principles.
• Familiarity with contract price adjustment formulae and index-linked escalation.
• Strong numerical accuracy and data-reconciliation skills for invoice/rate-card/clocking-system verification.
• Attention to detail in reconciling large, concurrent data…